2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 5
The April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge is designed to help poets do one thing and one thing only: Write more poems! The process of revision may go on for weeks, months,…
The April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge is designed to help poets do one thing and one thing only: Write more poems! The process of revision may go on for weeks, months, and years later, but this challenge is all about getting that first draft. Please poem along with us--either in the comments below or silently at home.
For today's prompt, write a plus poem. Plus can mean a lot of things, and even the act of addition could equate to subtraction.
Here's my attempt at a Plus poem:
"plus"
she forgets the window is there sometimes
& imagines that she wanders the streets
searching for someone to commit her crimes
against true love & poems filled with rhymes
prefering prose to line breaks & metered feet
she forgets the window is there sometimes
she confuses her lemons with her limes
& wishes for a ghost to haunt her sheets
searching for someone to commit her crimes
one plus one is the same as two one times
the glass sweating against the summer's heat
she forgets the window is there sometimes
as if the dirt of love transforms to grime
& all her memories have lost their seats
searching for someone to commit her crimes
to lift her sheets before breaking her lines
this someone--anyone--for her to meet
she forgets the window is there sometimes
searching for someone to commit her crimes
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
